Think Tank Quickies #175
- How the Hoover Institution vacuums up big conservative bucks.
- Hawaii and Texas think tanks unite to push back on Planned Parenthood's sex-ed agenda.
- Brookings holds US-China think tank summit.
- China's think tanks need to reach out and connect.
- America's lobbying addiction, via Brookings.
- Atlantic Council announces 2015 Leadership Awardees, including country music singer Toby Keith and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani; welcomes inaugural class of Millennium Fellows; Secretary of State John Kerry promotes US trade agenda at Atlantic Council.
- Should think tanks be required to disclose donors if they produce reports that might be considered political?
- Anders Borg, Sweden's former Minister of Finance, joins PIIE as Nonresident Senior Fellow.
- Rebecca Hersman, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), joins CSIS.
- Todd Cox, former staffer at the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, joins CAP; Jeff Krehely of Human Rights Campaign (HRC) rejoins CAP.
- New Wilson Center-Gramsci Institute project on the Italian Communist Party and China.
- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi confers with policy experts at USIP.
- RAND: China not a threat to US national security interests in Africa.
